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Re:Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier by ptg180 on Thursday May 03, 2012 @10:47PM (#3926782)
What type of algorithm (or at least what general class of algorithm) is generating the model? I'm just curious because I'm wondering if the input data has to be linearly separable or if it has a limited number of classes(I think that the iris dataset is only linearly separable in one case)?
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Re:Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier by skystorm on Thursday May 03, 2012 @10:56PM (#3926803)
Looks like good old decision trees to me (with some discretization for continuous input values).
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Re:Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier by jdonaldson on Thursday May 03, 2012 @11:20PM (#3926853)
As skystorm notes, these are decision trees. We have a limit on the number of classes (it's in the hundreds). We'll increase this as we improve the algorithms.
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